Native Writers and Canadian Writing

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William Herbert New, William H. New
UBC Press, 1990 - History - 306 pages
Native Writers and Canadian Writing is a co-publication with Canadian Literature - Canada's foremost literary journal - of a special double issue which focuses on literature by and about Canada's Native peoples and contains original articles and poems by both Native and non-Native writers. These not only reflect the growing prominence of contemporary Native writing but also direct the reader to the traditional literature from which it springs and which has been largely misunderstood by the non-Native community - myths, rituals, and songs having been interpreted more often as artistic "curiosities" rather than the masterworks of a different culture. Essays examining the conventional portrayals of Native people in literature touch on works which range from the eighteenth-century journals of explorer Alexander Mackenzie, to the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, and to early writers in Canada such as historian-humourist Thomas Chandler Haliburton.
 

Contents

Learning to Listen
4
BASIL H JOHNSTON
10
ROBIN MCGRATH
19
ROBERT BRINGHURST
32
PARKER DUCHEMIN
49
MARY LU MACDONALD
92
ALANNA KATHLEEN BROWN
113
RITA
122
BRUCE CHESTER
181
BARBARA GODARD
183
CELIA HAIGBROWN
229
MARGARET ATWOOD
243
DENIS W JOHNSTON
254
VICTORIA FREEMAN
266
ALOOTOOK IPELLIE
267
ROBIN RIDINGTON
273

AGNES GRANT
124
EMMA LAROCQUE
132
MINGWÔN MINGWÔN SHIRLEY BEAR
133
WAYNE KEON
153
Yin Chin
156
MARGERY
168
MINGWON MINGWÔN SHIRLEY BEAR
290
BASIL H JOHNSTON
291
JOAN CRATE
300
GARY BOIRE
301
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W.H. New is a professor in the English Department at the University of British Columbia and formerly the editor of Canadian Literature.